#liter

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#experience

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

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All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. ↗

— Steven Brust

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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#johnson #literary #melancholy #more #much

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#art #concern #education #embedded #firmly

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#literary #man #music #puts #them

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#destruction #good #help #literature #much

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #impossible #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy